A good friend of mine (thanks, Jim) sent
me a link
recently to several articles that claim that a provision of the new
law, passed by the House on 21 March 2010 (the Spring Equinox) and
signed by the President two days later, found in Section 2521, requires
that all Americans have micro-chips (such as an RFID device)
implanted. It is, for many reasons, a serious accusation and a
serious
concern.

However, after reading through this section of the law quickly, and
reading a number of analyzes of this section, I believe that the people
making this claim are mistaken, and not interpreting the intent or
actual words of the law correctly. I think that they are
overreacting.

There is a big difference between adding implantable devices to a
"registry" (a list of such devices with information about the device
and what the device can do - NOT a registry of the data which the
devices may obtain, gather or store) and mandating implantation of any
devices. I can't find ANYTHING so far in the law that requires
that
any person have any device implanted or worn; simply a requirement that
all such devices as may be used must be in a registry - that is,
government-approved.

There ARE good medical reasons for having things
implanted - like pacemakers and teeth and even blood-pressure monitors
- some of which might be electronic in nature and even have the ability
to transmit (or receive) data to/from outside the body. But I
could
find nothing in the passages cited that require that such devices be
used, or that records of their use (or data) be kept or given to
government: simply that it is made clear that doctors and other medical
personnel are not allowed to use anything on (or in) the human body
that has not be approved by the government.

(Of course, this in itself is NOT a good thing: the incompetence and
lust for power on the part of the FDA and other government agencies is
well-known. Government "approval" and the process leading to
being
placed on that registry will result in people dying or permanently
crippled by these devices.)

The people who are spreading this story about mandatory implants are
scared, and understandably so: it is a frightening subject. But
like
the people whose sole objection to the new "law" was that it might
allow (or require) federal abortion funding or force us to fund
abortions through our insurance premiums, they are concerned about
something important but NOT the MOST IMPORTANT THING about this
law.

What IS the most important? That Congress has, with the
President's
aid and encouragement:

(1) Gone completely beyond ANY authority granted to it by the States in
the Constitution, by:
(a) Mandating that all Americans and residents
purchase and have a specific project;
(b) Created an entirely new kind of tax -
which is NOT a tax
according to the law (which is mind-boggling in itself) when it is only
authorized to levy certain specific taxes; and
(c) Done so in a dishonest, deceitful, and
twisted way that
destroys any semblance of trust between the people, States, and
Congress.

(2) Demonstrated a degree of arrogance and corruption which is above
anything I am aware of in the past; and

(3) Demonstrated to the most causal observer that their behavior is
incompetent, unreasonable, and dangerous.

As a result, Congress has given virtually total direct control of
one-sixth of the US economy to the Army of federal (and state and
local) bureaucrats - creating an economy and society which is even more
socialist than we've had before.

In effect, the Congress by its actions and arrogance, together with the
President, has VOIDED the Constitution by failing in a clear and
obviously planned way to follow its provisions - in essence, they have
violated and breached the contract that exists between the States and
establishes the Federal Government as the agent for the States.
This
is no different than a contract in which Party A (Congress and the
entire federal government) is told In the contract by B, the States) to
do only X, and in return has authority to do or get M and N (authority,
funding, etc.); but goes on and does Y and Z, without permission and
with strong evidence that A's action was neither authorized by or
acceptable to B. The contract has been breached - unless action
is
taken to return to the terms and conditions of the contract, the
contract is null and void.

My correspondent and friend (Jim) did later make an excellent point,
which I repeat here, with a bit of editing:

What I thought was profound about the leadership's [Congressional and
Presidential] position in this new health care bill is the change in
how they view personal ownership of self (ie the person's own
person).
The previous position assumed by our Constitution was that we owned our
own body and as such we had personal responsibility, either good or
bad. We also owned the consequences.

The new [or at least, now-blatant] government approach is closer to one
of a property owner who demands his chattel be secure. In other
words; it does appear they now think of us as subjects, as
property.
As such, we lose individual freedom in order to achieve some common
comfort for our owners. This has been demonstrated
forever by
property owners ( branding, tagging, chipping, dehorning, castration,
to
name a few) in order to control chattel type property.

Even if the government does not use one particular form or another
[such as implantable RFID] to manage its "property," the "Beast" (that
our government seeks to become) has shown its intentions. We are their
property, and we are to be assimilated into a mass without
individual
traits, for the common good!

We have seen this before.

Yes, we have. It is all of a type, and typical of the
transnational
progressive mindset - the latest version of an evil that dates back to
before the Flood: that some of us are "more human" or "more deserving"
or "more worthy" than others; and therefore "they" are not only allowed
to, but MUST have power over us. Power and domination and
more.
Congress, or at least the majority in both houses that voted for this
law - plus many that did not, for whatever reason, considers themselves
to be our superiors and therefore free to exercise that power - the
power of ownership.

Therefore, Congress has now claimed that it has the power (de facto
"authority" - at the point of a gun) to do ANYTHING it wants, to ANYONE
or ANYTHING. If we allow this to stand without resistance,
without
rejection, we have lost ALL REMAINING FREEDOM. We are worse than
slaves. THAT means that it doesn't matter whether this law
prohibits
funding of abortions, or requires implanting of control and reporting
devices, or anything else - the Congress and the bureaucrats will order
and make us do ANYTHING that they think of, without ANY control or
protection from them. Oh, it won't be obvious immediately: it
will
take time, as Rep.
Dinkle blurted out"It takes a long time to do the necessary
administrative steps
that
have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the
people." And the appearance of freedom, of a republic, of
fifty
states, of liberty and life and compassion will still be there - it is
just that it will only appear that these things exist: they will be an
illusion. If we do not fight.

Back to the claim about mandatory implants: I fear that if people
go
around spouting things like this, based on some interesting
interpretation of a part of the law (if this is actually the law as
passed - can't tell), they will be viewed by a large chunk of the
population as nutcases, riding their pet hobbies into the ground.
Even
if their understanding was correct and they were able to get this part
"fixed," we are still left with the freedom-hating, liberty-destroying
rest of the law. The same thing would apply to the abortion part
and
even the mandates on the states. The whole thing needs to be
removed.
Spreading stories like this won't help that cause. We need to
stop
that and concentrate on fighting REAL battles, not our own fears.

Nathan Barton is writing this from a wonderful
place in the
West, which might be in the Black Hills of South Dakota or Wyoming, or
might be in one of the Four Corners States. Exactly where it is, the
breezes blow with the scent of liberty, and the sound of the pines or
the pinions is the sound of freedom. For thousands of years, people
have fought and died for the liberty that Americans in the great spaces
of the West enjoy, and he writes these commentaries in the hopes that
continued generations will be able to do so, until the end of Time.
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